Cool,
One question though.
I'm sitting here looking at a hell
of a lot of Redhat 5.1 cd's.
Are the differences in 5.1 to 5.2
small enough that upgrading over
the net would be trivial even for
dial-up people?
-Omar
christ wrote:
>
> >I was able to set up NIS very easily, which was a bonus for me
>
> as a side note, i installed redhat 5.2 yesterday on a dual xeon box,
> and it does have some worthwhile improvements. for one, NIS was
> absolutely a SNAP to set up (which has not been the case prior--i was
> actually deinstalling ypbind and building an alternate distribution
> and then tweaking THAT for *any* functionality.)--just set the domain
> name and /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind start, boom!
>
> the other 2 cool things i noticed in the approx 20 minutes i played with
> the install were a really fresh kernel (2.0.36 (i guess a pre-version,
> since 2.0.36 isn't really out yet) with aic7890 drivers, something the
> old version were lacking), and dosemu pre-set-up with freedos, so you
> actually get working dosemu out of the box.
>
> i haven't fired up X yet because my card was (sigh) not in the supported
> list, altho i'm fairly certain i'll be able to track down XSuSe servers
> or somesuch for it, so i can't tell you how keen the gnome setup is
> or whatever. i'll find out soon tho.
>
> hmm, and it ships with the gimp user manual, which i don't think 5.1 did,
> if it even shipped with gimp...can't recall currently.
>
> all in all, it's a step forward for redhat, as per usual. i'm going to
> try debian 2.1 next, just so omar will let me rest in peace =).
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